We chat with the legendary jonathansfrakes about Trek Against Pancreatic Cancer, as well as his work on StarTrekPicard, StarTrekDiscovery, StrangeNewWorlds, and more:
Jonathan Frakes is not only a Star Trek legend who is doing career-best work portraying Captain William T. Riker in Star Trek: Picard season 3, but he is also a crusader for pancreatic cancer research.
Jonathan Frakes Discusses Trek Against Pancreatic Cancer, Star Trek: Picard & More Screen Rant: Will Riker: good in bed, bad at pizza. And I presume he hates pancreatic cancer. That's my segueway. We're here to talk about a very important cause to you, which is Trek Against Pancreatic Cancer. Please tell us all about it and how Star Trek fans can help.
At this point, the markers that exist for breast cancer and for prostate cancer are really evolved and people have a very high survival rate if it's detected early. Pancreatic cancer is the second-worst cause of death and second-worst cancer, and the most unpredictable and brutal. And so, if we have more money for research and more money dedicated to pancreatic cancer specifically, it not only helps our world, but it helps all cancers. It should be part of a blood test.
Jonathan Frakes: LeVar [Burton] said at best the other day when we were doing some press: We didn't dare hope for anything this exciting. We didn't dare hope to have this kind of comeback as a group. And to see how well it's been received. I mean, it's been said, but I'll say it again: A lot of the credit goes to the writing, to Terry Matalas' vision of what the story could be.
I mean, there's been conflict in the Riker-Troi marriage, Picard was out of Starfleet. Dr. Crusher was [running] Doctors Without Borders in space. So everyone was off doing something different. And to bring them all back together, as Terry cleverly has, has not only been a blast for us, we've all been friends for 36 years anyway... But the fans have embraced it in a way that we didn't... again, we didn't dare hope that it would be this well received.
And now that my wife Troi has shown back up after the conflict that we've suffered because of our son's death and being stuck in this place where neither of us really wanted to be, her entrance late this season is so powerful because not only has it given the audience a chance to see us together, she now has a major purpose in the story. With Jack as you can see, that's about as far as we can go in terms of spoilers.
Terry Matalas, the writers, and the cast have all been lobbying for a continuation. Star Trek: Legacy, they're calling it on Twitter. I assume if that happens, you'd be back as Riker? Jonathan Frakes: I kid, but I only half kid, when I say I think it would be great if because... It feels like the legacy characters are gonna be Jeri [Ryan, Seven of Nine] and Raffi, and the offspring, obviously... Geordi has two daughters in the show. Crusher and Picard obviously have a son.
Jonathan Frakes: I did one in season 2. And I'm waiting for the writers to decide what they're doing before I go back and direct another one in season 3. The one in season 2 that I directed, and this is not a spoiler, is a crossover with a couple of the actors from Lower Decks, which is, I gotta say, hysterical.
It's that adult, animated fan base some of whom came over for Rick and Morty with Mike McMahan, some of whom have discovered the show, some of whom are the really deep, inside baseball trackers who are enjoying all the easter eggs that are planted in Lower Decks, and kind of the blue angle that they take on the show. So it's that joining... Anson's a wonderful comedian. Rebecca is a wonderful comedian. Ethan's hysterical in the show.
Jonathan Frakes: I was just about to say the same thing. The way Deep Space Nine feels like it's been rediscovered.
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